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Education funny

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Thanks to Joanne Jacobs for posting about this homeschool funny . Teacher takes a new approach to combating grafitti. Instead of painting over it, she corrects the grammar. "Hey, Tagger!" she wrote. "We'd like you to work on your grammar, please! Your tag SHOULD read as follows: Where are the female dogs?" If schools had more teachers like this, we'd probably still have our kids in school. Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Great Deals on School & Homeschool Curriculum

Doctor was very encouraging today

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Our Pediatrician Encouraged Our Homeschooling! by Andrea Hermitt TODAY AT 06:10 PM We went to visit the doctor today. The kids hadn't been there in 18 months. They actually thought we had changed doctors, but the truth is the kids hadn't been ill enough to visit a doctor, so we just didn't. read more Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Great Deals on School & Homeschool Curriculum

Spring Fever Edition of Carnival of Homeschooling

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I had the honor to write the Carnival of Homeschooling, Spring Fever Edition this week.  You will find it at my Atlanta Homschool Blog at Families.com.  Enjoy.  Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Great Deals on School & Homeschool Curriculum

Video courses for clep exams

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This site tells you which Anneberg media video courses to use when studying for CLEP exams http://www.freeuniv.com/outside/annenres.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Great Deals on School & Homeschool Curriculum

Assigning Letter grades from CLEP Scores (updates)

I was curious so I googled. Someone on my CLEP email list mentioned that their sons took the CLEP today and one got an 80 a perfect score and the other got a 66. I wondered how that translated into letter grades, and here is was I found: **update: I just got an email that lists (unnoficial) A and B grades for all cleps Click Here! to increase your chances of passing. This is straight from the College Board Business Financial Accounting 65 50 Introductory Business Law 60 50 Information Systems and Computer Applications 59 50 Principles of Accounting 2 53 50 Principles of Marketing 65 50 Principles of Management 63 50 Composition and Literature Analyzing & Interpreting Literature 60 50 American Literature 58 50 English Composition with Essay 63 50 English Composition without Essay 59 50 English Literature 62 50 Freshman College Composition 59 50 Humanities 56 50 Foreign Languages French Language, Level 1 64 50 French Language, Level 2 69 59 German La...